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    Statements: All Time are Clock. Only

    a few Time is Minute All Minute are Second. Conclusions: I. Some Clock being Minute is a possibility II. Some Second being Time is a possibility In each of the questions below some statements are given followed by two conclusions. You have to take the given statements to be true even if they seem to be at variance with commonly known facts. Read all the conclusions and then decide which of the given conclusions logically follows from the given statements, disregarding commonly known facts. Give answer
    A Only II follows. Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    B Either I or II follows Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    C Both I and II follow Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    D Only I follow Correct Answer Incorrect Answer
    E Neither I nor II follows Correct Answer Incorrect Answer

    Solution

    Only a few Time is Minute → Conversion → Some Minute are Time (I) + All Time are Clock (A) → Some Minute are Clock (I) → Conversion →   Some Clock are Minute (A). Hence conclusion I does not follows. Some Time are Minute (I) + All Minute are Second (A) → Some Time are Second (I) → Conversion → Some Second are Time (I). Hence conclusion II does not follows.

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